Homes line the street in the 2300 block of Elsie Faye Heggins St. in Dallas on Monday, July 10, 2017.

(David Woo/Staff Photographer)

Dallas City Hall aims to build a housing policy once more, with feeling — and data

When Raquel Favela began her job over the summer as Dallas City Hall's chief of economic development and neighborhood services, she was told the city already had a comprehensive housing policy.

But it didn't. Not really, anyway. What Favela received, she believes, were "some policy statements from which we were to start working on a policy."

Once she learned more, she said she found "a disconnect from the policy statements and these programs and the realities on the ground." In other words, too often, the city was trying to use cures that didn't treat the diseases.

That includes qualified tuition reductions colleges and universities often provide that allow employees, their spouses or dependents to enroll tuition free or at a reduced rate. Such reductions are generally tax free for undergraduate courses.

Recently, a trove of files released under the JFK Records Act of 1992 offers the possibility of new information made public. Many are documents that have already been released in part.

The researchers who know the case best say there’s not a lot of new information, and no definitive proof for any of the myriad theories about the assassination. Yet for all the debate, researchers agree there is plenty of evidence in the documents to prove there was a conspiracy in November 1963.

Finally,

As part of the #MeToo movement, which saw thousands of people across the country share their stories of sexual assault and harassment on social media, several high-profile chefs and restaurateurs across the country have raised concerns about a kitchen culture that has tolerated abuse of women.

The Dallas Morning News is interested in hearing from restaurant workers -- servers, kitchen staff and others -- who can give some insight into what it is like to work in the industry here.